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In the first part of this paper, we consider several natural axioms in urelement set theory, including the Collection Principle, the Reflection Principle, the Dependent Choice scheme and its generalizations, as well as other axioms…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-11-20 Bokai Yao

`What more than its truth do we know if we have a proof of a theorem in a given formal system?' We examine Kreisel's question in the particular context of program termination proofs, with an eye to deriving complexity bounds on program…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-09-26 Sylvain Schmitz

We define the notion of ordinal computability by generalizing standard Turing computability on tapes of length $\omega$ to computations on tapes of arbitrary ordinal length. We show that a set of ordinals is ordinal computable from a finite…

Logic · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Peter Koepke

We present an analogue of G\"{o}del's second incompleteness theorem for systems of second-order arithmetic. Whereas G\"{o}del showed that sufficiently strong theories that are $\Pi^0_1$-sound and $\Sigma^0_1$-definable do not prove their…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-09-21 James Walsh

For a poset $(P,\leqslant)$ we consider the first-order theory, that is defined by set $P$ and relation $\leqslant$. The problem of undecidability of combinatorial theories attracts significant attention. Recently A. Wires proved the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Vsevolod Evtushevsky

In this paper we calibrate the strength of the soundness of a Kripke-Platek set theory with the axioms of Infinity and \Pi_{1}-Collection with the assumption that`there exists an uncountable regular ordinal' in terms of the existence of…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-01-31 Toshiyasu Arai

We survey systematic approaches to basis-restricted fragments of propositional logic and modal logics, with an emphasis on how expressive power and computational complexity depend on the allowed operators. The propositional case is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Nick Bezhanishvili , Balder ten Cate , Arunavo Ganguly , Arne Meier

We investigate predicative aspects of order theory in constructive univalent foundations. By predicative and constructive, we respectively mean that we do not assume Voevodsky's propositional resizing axioms or excluded middle. Our work…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-04-22 Tom de Jong , Martín Hötzel Escardó

We present a unified theory for formal mathematical systems including recursive systems closely related to formal grammars, including the predicate calculus as well as a formal induction principle. We introduce recursive systems generating…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Matthias Kunik

Let $L$ be the language of rings. We provide an axiomatization of the $L$-theories of quaternions and octonions and characterize their models: they coincide, up to isomorphism, with quaternion and octonion algebras over a real closed field,…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Enrico Savi

We isolate here a wide class of well founded orders called tame orders and show that each such order of cardinality at most $\kappa$ can be realized as the Mitchell order on a measurable cardinal $\kappa$, from a consistency assumption…

Logic · Mathematics 2015-08-18 Omer Ben-Neria

Notions of ordinal submodularity/supermodularity have been introduced and studied in the literature. We consider several classes of ordinally submodular functions defined on finite Boolean lattices and give characterizations of the set of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Satoru Fujishige , Ryuhei Mizutani

In this paper, we continue the study of a left-distributive algebra of elementary embeddings from the collection of sets of rank less than lambda to itself, as well as related finite left-distributive algebras (which can be defined without…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Randall Dougherty

We show that the existence of a first-order formula separating two monadic second order formulas over countable ordinal words is decidable. This extends the work of Henckell and Almeida on finite words, and of Place and Zeitoun on…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Thomas Colcombet , Sam van Gool , Rémi Morvan

In this note we show that a set is provably $\Delta^0_2$ in the fragment $I\Sigma_n$ of arithmetic iff it is $I\Sigma_n$-provably in the class $D_\alpha$ of $\alpha$-r.e. sets in the Ershov hierarchy for an $\alpha <_{\epsilon_0}…

Logic · Mathematics 2013-04-11 Toshiyasu Arai

We introduce a reducibility on classes of structures, essentially a uniform enumeration reducibility. This reducibility is inspired by the Friedman-Stanley paper on using Borel reductions to compare classes of countable structures. This…

Logic · Mathematics 2008-03-25 Wesley Calvert , Desmond Cummins , Sara Miller , Julia F. Knight

We introduce a formal language GDST (gradualist descriptionalist set theory) with a family of interpretations indexed by ordinals, as well as a sublanguage NMID (the language of not necessarily monotonic inductive definitions), and show…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-03-31 David Simmons

Definite descriptions, such as 'the smallest planet in the Solar System', have been recently recognised as semantically transparent devices for object identification in knowledge representation formalisms. Along with individual names, they…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Alessandro Artale , Andrea Mazzullo

The article focuses on a class of second countable groups assembled from profinite and discrete by elementary operations. We focus on a rank associated with these groups that measure their complexity, the decomposition rank. A collection of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-10-23 João V. P. e Silva

We provide mutual elementary recursive order isomorphisms between classical ordinal notations, based on Skolem hulling, and notations from pure elementary patterns of resemblance of order $2$, showing that the latter characterize the…

Logic · Mathematics 2017-10-06 Gunnar Wilken